“The most urgent task I have is to help those British citizens that came from the Caribbean, the so-called Windrush generation, and make sure that they are treated with the decency and the fairness that they deserve,” Javid said.

His former private secretary Chris Philp, the Conservative MP for Croydon South, appeared on the Julia Hartley-Brewer show this morning and praised Javid's skills.

“It is a good appointment,” he said.

“I think he’s one of those unusual people who combines passion and empathy with an ability to get things done. I think that’ll help him deal with what’s a difficult and challenging brief for the Home Office.”

“If you have a bad policy and artificial targets, you then cut the department that’s meant to be making those decisions… and end up making a whole series of bad decisions.

“There’s a gentleman who lives in the area next door to my constituency who was born on a British military base in Germany. He suddenly had huge issues trying to prove he was a British citizen.

“I had a young person from my constituency who was able to take out a second passport even though he shouldn’t have been able to and his family were under a terror watch list, to go and fight for Isis in Syria.”

Sajid Javid is yet to announce the specifics of any changes he’ll make to the immigration policy.